Hynobius kimurae Dunn, 1923
Hynobius luteopunctatus Hatta, 1914, Zool. Anz., 43: 32. Nomen nudum. Provisionally included in synonymy by Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 9; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 17.
Hynobius kimurae Dunn, 1923, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 12: 27. Holotype: MCZ 8546, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Heizan, near Kyoto, Hondo", Honshu I., Omi Province, Japan.
Hynobius kimurai — Dunn, 1923, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 58: 486. Incorrect subsequent spelling. See comment.
Pseudosalamandra hida Tago, 1929, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 41: 431. nomen nudum. Synonymy by Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 9.
Pseudosalamandra kimurai — Tago, 1931, Imori to Sanshio-uo: 36, 181.
Pseudosalamandra hida — Pearse, 1932, Ecology, 13: 139.
Hynobius (Hynobius) naevius kimurai — Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 12.
Hynobius kimurae —Matsui In Sengoku, 1979, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 106-107.
English Names
Hondo Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Hida Salamander (Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 14).
Distribution
Mountains of Kanto and Chubu districts of eastern Honshu through Chubu and Kinki districts of central Honshu to Chugoku District of western Honshu I., Japan.
Comment
In the Hynobius naevius group of Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 37. Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 12, noted that subsequent emendation to incorrect Hynobius kimurai. These authors considered Hynobius kimurae to be a subspecies of Hynobius naevius, but this was rejected by Matsui in Sengoku, 1979, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 106-107. Matsui, Misawa, Kanto, and Tanabe, 2000, Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B—Comp. Biochem., 125: 115-125, examined genetic divergence between Hynobius kimurae and Hynobius naevius and considered them distinct, and noted that Hynobius kimurae is composed of two genetically distinct populations, an eastern one, and a central and western one. See accounts by Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 83-84, Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 14-16, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 52. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed the nomenclatural principles that prevent kimurae from being emendable to kimurai. Matsui, Misawa, and Nishikawa, 2009, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 26: 87-95, reported on morphological geographic variation.
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